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American Presidential China: The Robert L. McNeil, Jr., Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)President, 1885-89 and 1893-97

Students at the Demidoff vocational school in Russia presented a twelve-piece porcelain tea service to First Lady Frances Folsom Cleveland (1864–1947) in gratitude for her efforts to alleviate the Great Famine of 1891–92. The service, decorated in deep rose with gold and blue geometric bands, comprises a teapot, covered creamer, covered sugar bowl, waste bowl, and eight cups and saucers. It was manufactured and marked by the M. S. Kuznetsov Partnership. Susan Gray Detweiler, from American Presidential China: The Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2008), p. 68.

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